Jokić outduels Curry to beat the Warriors | Bucks; Thunder lead NBA Cup Knockout Round
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
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Summary
Nikola Jokić was a game high +23 as the Denver Nuggets beat the Golden State Warriors on the final night of NBA Cup group play. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita breakdown Jokić’s night, Giannis and the Bucks recent surge, and take a look at the NBA Cup Knockout stage matchups. Then, the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson, joins the show to talk about the Warriors recent slide and their need for a number two option. In the listener question segment, Zena and Dave give their thoughts on the conference finals frontrunners so far.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Marcus Thomas
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 4th, |
| 0:10.0 | 2024. |
| 0:11.0 | Coming up, the NBA Cup group play is over. |
| 0:14.1 | We are heading on to the knockout round. |
| 0:16.4 | We've got Marcus Thompson on to talk about the Warriors and their loss to the nuggets. |
| 0:20.6 | And Zina and I are going to give our thoughts on the conference finals favorites. |
| 0:25.2 | Zena, the Toronto WNBA team name leaked today. |
| 0:29.3 | What do you think about the tempo? |
| 0:31.2 | Leave it to the Caribbean and Toronto to know there's nothing scarier than staying on rhythm. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:38.4 | Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:40.2 | The NBA Cup group play is now over as of last night. |
| 0:45.6 | The knockout rounds all set. |
| 0:47.4 | Zeno, what did you think about the NBA Cup this year? |
| 0:50.5 | It's year two. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, I felt like it was pretty competitive. |
| 0:56.0 | I thought it was too. I was disappointed with some of the games last night lots of blowouts however overall you're seeing an |
| 1:01.8 | elevated level of play you're seeing teams run the score up you're seeing players staying in the game |
| 1:07.9 | in the fourth quarter to ensure that they got that score up. |
| 1:12.7 | So overall, everyone's just like bought in. |
| 1:18.2 | My favorite thing is that last night, all of the hand ringing over Tom Thibito playing his guys too much went out the window. |
| 1:20.9 | We're all rooting, oh, can they win by 36 points instead of 37? |
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